“Can a QCB-licensed payment facilitator become the default cashless payment infrastructure layer for businesses across Qatar?”
Founded in 2016 as a 100% Qatari-owned payment processor, TESS Payments positioned itself as Qatar's primary independent payment gateway operator. It secured a QCB PSP license and became a registered Payment Facilitator under Visa, Mastercard, and NAPS, enabling it to serve banks, other PSPs, and 300+ merchants directly. The company's embedded-finance angle is primarily as an infrastructure provider — offering white-label gateway capabilities, API-based payment acceptance, and tokenisation to businesses across Qatar aiming to go cashless.
TESS Payments processes payments through TESS Payments (self-operated).
TESS Payments is founded in 2016 and headquartered in Qatar.
TESS Payments has raised $140K in total.
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